Improvement in pocket-scissors



A. J. YOUNG.

Pocket -Scissors.

7 N0. 127,207 Patented May 28,1872;

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UNITED STATES.

ANDREW JACKSON YOUNG, OF DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

' iMPROVEMEhlT I N POCKET-SCISSORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,207, dated May 28, 1872.

of the same, showing the side plates and springs. Fig. 3 is also an edge view with the blade opened. Fig. 4 is a side view with the blades opened. Fig. 5 shows one of the bows and a blade separated from the other.

Like letters denote corresponding parts in each figure.

This invention relates to animprovelnent in the construct-ion of scissors, by which this useful article is made capable of being readily folded into a compact form, so that it may be carried in the pocket without injury to the garments; and it consists in so jointing the blades to the bows that they may be folded within the bows, as will be hereafter more fully explained.

In the drawing, a and a are the blades, formed in the usual manner, except that instead .of being rigidly attached and forminga part of the same piece of metal as the bows, they terminate at a short distance from the central pivot or fulcrum, upon which they oscillate, in a squareended shank, as shown at c, Fig. 5, at which point they are pivoted to the bows by the pivot f. The bows b and b are each formed of two plates, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. One of these plates extends the whole distance from its junction with theblades at c to the extremity of the bows. The other only forms thecircle of the bows, and assists in securing the springin position as well as to form a recess, into which the blades enter when t-heimplement is closed. Between these plates is secured the spring (1, similar in form and function to the back spring of an ordinary pocket-knife. This spring, pressing against the inner side of the shanks of the blades when they are folded, retains the different parts of the device in the position shown in Fig. 1; but when the blades are opened the springs bear firmly upon the inner side of the shanks and retain them in their proper condition for operating in the same manner as the wellknown implement in common use.

By an inspection of the drawing it will be seen that when closed the blades with their pointsare perfectly protected from injurious contact with surrounding objects by the bows, as they are completely inclosed and secured therein, thus rendering the implement a perfectly safe and convenient article to be carried in the pocket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The pocket-scissors herein described, consisting of bows hinged to the blades, and so 

